One senator thinks Sen. Joseph Lieberman would make a great Secretary of Defense.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, thinks former Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman would be a perfect replacement for Chuck Hagel, who stepped down as Secretary of Defense Monday.

“We need a Secretary of Defense who is squarely focused on defending the national security interests of the United States, first and foremost, and especially preventing a bad deal over Iran’s nuclear weapons program that could do irreparable harm to us and our allies,” Cruz said in a statement in a story on Roll Call and Talking Points Memo.